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I'm looking at spoending some of my redundancy check on a 5870 in Jan/Feb. Give the state of supply and the rising prices I should probably order around now.
Is there any differences between the different manufacturers like XFX, Sapphire and Powercolour ? They all seem to be reference designs.
Thx
I expect by January supply will be a bit better and prices might have come down a bit. Buy in Jan/Feb instead of now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phage
Besides, an extra month's wait probably won't kill you :)
PK
Also nvidia have released a image of their new card demoing the dx11 benchmark so maybe they will have announced their's by then giving some competiton
That's what they want you to think.
Thanks everyone. Perhaps I should wait.
But can anyone tell me the difference between the vendors ?
Saw that linked earlier from a NV employee on this site. Doesn't add much.
I haven't seen much mention of anything non-reference yet - I imagine it'll take at least a month for a few to materialise.
At the moment everybody's busting to get any kind of a 5870 so there's no incentive to differentiate yet - once the reference cards are easy to get hold of, that's when I reckon we'll start seeing something else.
There is a Vapor-X that's seen a few reviews (inc Hexus) but it was very underwhelming if you ask me. Not much quieter, not much faster, and not much cooler. And it cost a fair bit more too.
By Jan/Feb they will be shipping fine I expect. Dabs are actually telling a freind that his will ship in 6 days when their next stock is delivered....and he nly ordered a few days ago.
Dabs told me something similar for a 5850, 13 days ago. It has been pushed back 3 times and the current expected date is 27th November. I may just cancel and wait for the 5870 to drop after xmas.Quote:
Originally Posted by shaithis
It has been pushed back again.
New Estimated Stock Availability : 08/12/2009
I give up :)
You can't believe any of the ETA's currently being given out by a lot of stores...
Sadly they are being let down by the resellers so its definately a guessing game about stock. As mentioned you're best bet is to wait if you're not desperate both prices and availibility will be better in 2 months.
Unfortunately I got stiffed by a retailer with BAD warehouse stock control, so now have a half built PC waiting :(
Re: cards, all of the cards apart from the Vapour-X are reference designs, with a few announced overclocked versions (still with refernce coolers).
Don't forget that in Jan\Feb we will have the old 17.5% VAT back - so remember to factor that in.
Cheers,
Nigel
Good point on the VAT but thats small fry compared to the 20-30%+ markups that a lot of retailers are charging atm :(